Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1869 — A Tiger Loose. [ARTICLE]

A Tiger Loose.

“■ French* Mowtamc, between Gleij’a, Falt£ anti LaXc. George, wav the segno of a genuine sensation during fljc sojourn of Campbell's circua aud menagerie at that viUftgß a night or TWO -Since- At aMe hour, long after the audience had been disScK dm! the etiftvM down, as the _ iruan left in’ charge 'Was rMtfrnulg from an inspection jiftbq at&bV'M’ l ie oh. served ft targe. aninjtV jl»i|t. .across his path and almost inataaily vanish in . tbp darkness. Suspecting at once that sonia one or more of lhV>Wia escaped fr&tft their bondage, he Jiasls«vfr't& ’WMfe the (■ages were coarlted and discovered that the largest of the two elephants had drawfij the stake MWrtddi hethaui besn fastened and - had- Upset the cage of the - Bengal ffyvttr, breakfrijf the doors and bending (.he batw'4n*‘Mdli«* tnanusr aato allow tho animal to escape. To -run to. the dwaktm the'dbrtihftnt driver aqd summon -all hand's tWaa tub tff klnomeut. dophaht was promptly fettered and a search for tho truant tiger commenced.' ®HKMKg showmen would lead in the search, th e reuhnindtr foUnwisg at a raSpecftfaVdist tnce and jn the greattei-ttßpidation, She 'Mger. Mbs tkAI 36ng in making vWf’mS Whfcreffiiortts, for tho bleating, of, a, .calf, in mingled .intonations- 'of pain nh'dTfcrfrJr, vrtiarfanhifroli/A drw shod wn< 'a’lWc'Mlth WS'WheW "loSj widuiatod. tjjnj his royal highnesM'WWs Mtiatingdits glut-. >4jii.ftf i KM r that the tkr M and was crouched oyer the jtxing 'gn(mal,' greedily, lappipg tjia nlbod wnftn’ Spurted .IrOM a largu^oifnd 1 In itt Aeck. A plan /£ |ooh Mr.'i keeper of thp tiger, at it mjjjtjtetifcf. He pnxjurßd-a.rttpw and making anWosc in the form of a lariat, ho ascended by a Iftdr, dpL from, ths (Outside of Urn shed tq wihdtAv,'frdm 7 wWnee‘ht>*passcd to the ai&Mwtt sa a tiger to Hibk.upMUtdl giving Mr. King an. opportunity to throw the lariat over tJie 1 aninijio ljei|(i| dexterously, I accomplished: Drawing his 1 rope njaduhtthit to a beam, and another rope was’paSsfa to him, with succeeded in)talsoeing the tiger in the' ffiWSWtpftUSft.yTr men'wfio‘were niiAr-'tlfe'Entrance tp the party, and the two iMek" Marta' !at once stretched, ~'«Mb4 -TfSAftyr'.walking in the op>-i ■fjbsltd flirectibHl I’lWhen the tiger would; inako i a rush atone group qf cap»rt.' the otbexs inoukiihaul tighjLon., ,V}gir Iwo and thus prevent him from doing qqy mischief. After much exertion, and sbveral ludicrous stampedes from the bystanders, he was dragged ba£tft<t (if which had, in (Ac JMan'time, been repaired.. When he earner Xn .view of his den’ he bifaßdod in of bilXw* accord ; but the attendants, in their haste to secure him closed the trdft idppr it<?f, suddenly, .and' severed about-a foot off his majestyfs law;. —thus spbflftfg, <tf Aft mngnifleent', attJjfciAiicfe,' But preventing an endrcfiJriimonnt of depredation and les? of life, .peffiapx besides reputing to'thfc ‘prtiprieMCa very vhluahlo Xhimalold trapper, who! treated khe WestSSgWWXw bushes and cacti. ta a thin soil formedxivar thd sand and gravjel, and grass covert Jthe entiro ■ wfabe. And it appears that this enriching. process goes ’on fiuter and/-faster: every year. This is Whyeo tnanji peeplq (have been eston ishe< 1 at n<rt finding *any i ‘S-Sreat- -American Desert,’’ and wnulodd it> wak>oniy a nMUs The truth '>Uat W